Upcoming Conferences
Shakespeare Forum: Page, Stage, Engage
The 2008 Forum will bring artists, educators, and scholars together to discuss the implications of producing and teaching Shakespeare in the 21st century.
April 24 - 27, 2008
Frank Zappa Orchestral Laboratory
The premier, six-day intensive performance seminar for college-age performers (undergraduate and grauate/advnced degree students) will provide an in-depth examination of the music of Frank Zappa and Edgar Varese. Intesive peformance seminar for college-age perfomers.
June 8-14, 2008
Speaking Out! : 6th National Aphasia Association Conference
Co-sponsored with the National Aphasia Association.
June 19-21, 2008
Acting Workshop: Character Study
The Acting Workshop: Character Study is geared towards the fundamental understanding of creating a character, and offers concrete tools and techniques for in depth character development.
July 28 - August 1, 2008
Past Conferences
Families as Partners II: Challenges and Strategies
Town Hall Meeting and Conference
March 4 and 5, 2008
Arts Education - to what end?
In an era of standardized testing, shrinking budgets, and educational reforms that purport to keep teachers accountable and to leave no students behind, what is the role and place of arts education?
March 7 and 8, 2008
Doctoral Student Conference of the International Education Program
This student conference seeks to foster discussion and an open exchange of ideas on topics related to the ways in which educators, education systems, politicians, philanthropists, and students alike have responded to contemporary educational and societal demands.
March 13 and 14, 2008
Power & Authority in Groups and Organizations: Going Global
A three-day temporary experiential learning conference designed to help us understand the complexity of dynamics motivating our behavior in groups and organizations so that we may transform ourselves and our organizations by becoming "responsible reflective citizens of the world."
April 4 - 6, 2008
Association for Moral Education 2007 Conference
Civic Education, Moral Education, and Democracy in a Global Society
World events lead many of us to ask how we can be virtuous in a pluralistic global society. In our increasingly fractious and confrontational world, howare we to be loyal to our countries, our homelands, as citizens must, and moral as all humans across all countries should be? How do we remain loyal to our own democratic values and respectful of different ways of governing and living? Are there any moral principles that ought to guide deliberations of all people?
November 15 -17, 2007
Double Reed Day at NYU
A daylong event for talented high school and college-age oboists and bassoonists.
October 28, 2007
Italy and the Mediterranean Diet: Food Culture, Nutrition, and the Question of Quality
A Joint Conference of the Steinhardt Schoo at New York University and the James Beard Foundation. The Conference will explore the role quality, both real and imagined, plays in the nutritional and cultureal aspects of the Mediterranean Diet and how the message of quality is exported to and manipulated in America.
October 19-20, 2007
Culture, Investments, and Human Development
This conference will formally launch the new interdisciplinary research institute, the Institute of Human Development and Social Change at NYU Steinhardt. How do patterns of human development unfold in the context of rapidly changing social forces? Featured at the conference will be three world-renowned scholars (one economist, one sociologist, one psychologist), each paired with two in-house discussants from NYU departments.
October 5, 2007
Facilitative Leadership for Educators
3-day workshop for mentors, content coaches, regional supervisors, district coordinators, staff developers.
August 20 - August 22, 2007
The Poblano-New York City Connection:
Cultural Understanding for Professionals
NYU Steinhardt's Puebla initiative is aimed at providing educators in New York City public schools, as well as social workers, public health and nutrition professionals, and others serving the Poblano population in New York an opportunity to understand the Puebla-New York connection at its source. The program, designed by the Steinhardt Office of Special Programs and Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla, will begin this summer with a visit to Puebla.
June 30 - July 6, 2007
Families as Partners: Viewed from Different Directions
Town Hall Meeting and Conference
With the implementation of the "Families as Partners" model by the NYC Early Intervention Program in 2006, professionals, practitioners, and parents have embarked on a new model of service implementation.
May 22 and 23 , 2007
Drama Across the Curriculum and Beyond
This forum will aim to investigate the infusion of drama in education and in community settings.
April 27 - 29, 2007
Response to Intervention: Conference and Town Hall Meeting
The Conference and Town Hall meeting will focus on an analysis of Response to Intervention as an alternative approach to identifying children with learning disabilities.
November 16, 2006
Facilitative Leadership for Educators - 2006
3-day workshop for mentors, content coaches, regional supervisors, district coordinators, staff developers.
August 23 - 25, 2006
Teaching Beyond the Test
Learner-centered Teaching of Literacy, Mathematics, and the Arts in an Age of Accountability
The workshop will explore ways to improve children’s academic competencies without “teaching to the test” and teaching in an Age of Accountability that relegates arts education and integrated learning to the margins.
June 26-June 30, 2006
The Mediterranean Diet: Fact & Fiction
Join us for a week in Florence at the spectacular La Pietra. Experts from various fields will explore and examine the myth of the Mediterranean Diet and its impact on Italian history, politics, economics, culture, health, and cuisine.
May 21 – 26, 2006
Town Hall Meeting: No Child Left Behind
Learn about NCLB and the law ’s implications for schools, teachers, parents, and children. We will discuss the law’s impact on: How children are educated, Children’s ability to succeed, High-stakes testing, Highly qualified teachers, School funding and accountability, Parental involvement.
April 4, 2006
Educating the Global City
Conference on Globalization, Education, Immigration, and the Changing Demographics of Global Cities In celebration of the opening of the Institute for Globalization and Education in Metropolitan Settings, IGEMS.
November 1, 2005
New Visions for Public Schools
A Conversation Among Small School Designers NSRF/New York Annual Meeting
October 29, 2005
For More information contact the Office of Special Programs, 212-992-9380